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We are enthralled with photographer Lindsay McCrum's poetic—yes, poetic—new book, Chicks with Guns (Vendome Press, $45), a gallery of women who are armed and dangerously gorgeous.

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Filled with incredible photography primarily by Marc Walter, the book showcases the love of exotic Eastern influences which began to inspire the Western world nearly 400 years ago.